Anywhere but back there

Ono didn't know what she was doing. She'd been planning to hunker down in Auster for some time, but well that wasn't going to work. But she didn't really want to go back to the band either. She didn't have anywhere to go. She very much doubted that her family even really noticed she hadn't been returning nearly as much. The young woman wandered her way back from Auster, skirting the edges of a pack and so allowing herself to take the more treacherous paths of the ravine.

Her going was slow, her reduced visibility keeping her slow. The last thing she wanted was to fall, the river was a long way down and the bank looked rocky. For all her complex feelings about her family, the idea of her mother wondering where she was, never knowing she'd slipped and broken her neck made her deeply sad. So she was being extra cautious to make sure that didn't happen. But it left her with little else to do but to wallow in her worry and uncertainty.

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